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Latest Shadow Brokers dump includes evidence NSA hacked SWIFT transaction system in the Middle East, has new exploits for older Windows versions up to Windows 8 — For eight months, the hacker group known as Shadow Brokers has trickled out an intermittent drip of highly classified NSA data.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says Windows exploits disclosed by Shadow Brokers have been patched on all currently supported versions of Windows — Microsoft says it has already patched the Windows exploits released by the Shadow Brokers group. The hacking tools, likely originating from the NSA …
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| Kif Leswing / Business Insider: |
Apple received permit to test autonomous vehicles in California; DMV spokesman says Apple applied to test three 2015 Lexus RX450h vehicles — Apple has received a permit to test autonomous cars in California, the first official confirmation that the maker of the iPhone sees the century-old automobile …
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| John Markoff / New York Times: |
Robert Taylor, the innovator who played key roles in the invention of Arpanet, the Alto computer, and the computer mouse, dies at 85 — Like many inventions, the internet was the work of many inventors. But perhaps no one deserves more credit for that world-changing technological leap …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Uber shares Q4 2016 numbers: gross bookings up 28% QoQ to $6.9B, net revenue up 74% QoQ to $2.9B, net loss up 5% to $991M — The ride-hailing giant opens up its books for the first time in an interview with Bloomberg. — by — Uber Technologies Inc. isn't required to report its finances publicly …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft confirms that just 13 Windows Phone models will officially support the Windows 10 Creators Update — Microsoft is rolling out a new test builds for Windows 10 to phone Insiders (and to PC users), while acknowledging that only a dozen or so Windows Phone models will get Windows 10 Creators Update.
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| Will Knight / MIT Technology Review: |
Deep learning AI systems, which may help make important decisions in the future, are neither understandable to their creators nor accountable to their users — No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem.
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| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
Stanford and Princeton researchers create ad-blocker that uses computer vision, can evade all known anti ad-blockers; available as a proof of concept on Chrome — A team of Princeton and Stanford University researchers has fundamentally reinvented how ad-blocking works … | Ali Breland / The Hill: |
Microsoft reveals first FBI National Security Letter in transparency report, says US foreign intelligence surveillance requests doubled from H2 2015 to H1 2016 — Microsoft published its biannual transparency report on Thursday, revealing its first National Security Letter from the FBI.| Elizabeth Weise / USA Today: |
Facebook rolling out tech that analyzes patterns to find fake accounts that can spread misinformation, malware, and falsely boost page rankings — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is ramping up efforts to kill off sham accounts used to spread fake news, pass along malware and falsely boost page rankings …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
A look at adversarial images, which target and trick AI systems into misidentifying people or objects — There's a scene in William Gibson's 2010 novel Zero History, in which a character embarking on a high-stakes raid dons what the narrator refers to as the “ugliest T-shirt” in existence … | Reuters: |
Japan's NHK: Apple considering multibillion dollar investment in Toshiba's chip business for stake of more than 20% — Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is considering investing at least several billion dollars in the chip business put up for sale by Toshiba Corp (6502.T), public broadcaster NHK reported, citing an unidentified source.
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